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bluecoat

noun

Etymology

From blue + coat.

  1. derived from *gʷewd-✻
  2. derived from *kuttô✻
  3. derived from cotta
  4. derived from cote
  5. inherited from cote
  6. compounded as bluecoat — “blue + coat”

Definitions

  1. A pupil attending any of certain prestigious British schools having a traditional dress…

    A pupil attending any of certain prestigious British schools having a traditional dress code.

    • This was a bluecoat school in my day.

  2. A soldier or officer in the Union army during the American Civil War.

    • The shot wounded Thomas Lord, a 73-year-old former New York City police officer from Suffolk, Va., and a bluecoat with the Seventh New York Volunteer Cavalry.

  3. A policeman.

    • Holonym: thin blue line
    • "The offices are up those steps," said the bluecoat.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA